It’s been an exciting time for a number of young men who herald from the Downtown Eastside. After over a year of practice, eight young men (six of whom are from First Nations around BC) will be heading to Rio on September 15 to represent Canada in the Homeless World Cup. Haven’t heard of the [...]
City Chase is coming up and we here at the Gumboot are all pretty excited. I’m excited for a few reasons. First, I said “yes” to join in on this little competition before having a full grasp of what I’ll be required to do. Run around the city? Check. Engage in humourous challenges? Check. Help [...]
On Saturday (August 28, 2010), six members of the Daily Gumboot team will be participating in City Chase Vancouver. And it’s gonna be fun! Over the next few days, you will be hearing from members of our hopefully victorious crew about this Amazing-Race-like event and the myriad ways that it creates community. We’re excited to [...]
MusicFest brings out the best in people (Editor’s Note: this article was recently posted by communications consultant and writer Jody Paterson. It was originally published in the Times Colonist newspaper. However, because it was so topical and co-editor John Horn and now lovely wife Michelle Horn have a particular connection to the region in question, [...]
A couple of weeks ago my post about Canada’s farming community painted a somewhat bleak picture about how they are currently doing. The past 70 or so years of industrial farming, cheap imports, and government policy has been hard on farmers (see Part 1).
But the future for the farming community doesn’t look all bad. I think we are currently in the cusp of a farming revival spurred on by celebrity chefs, visible impacts of a changing climate, peak oil (and really peak everything), a global economic crisis, etc.
I have a confession to make. This is my third summer in Vancouver and yesterday was the first time that I experienced the Pride Parade and Festival. I am not, ahem, proud of this fact. What I am proud of is this city. The Pride Parade is a true reflection of the inclusive, accepting and [...]
Last night, I went to a play at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre called Oliver Handelschmidst’s Weird and Wonderful Circus. My 10 year old cousin-in-law was in the play, and did a wonderful job (go Quinn!). After a nerve-wracking ten minutes in which I did not know that his character was supposed to be stuttering, my husband [...]
Trust me. I’m going somewhere cool with this. On Monday afternoon I was skimming a newsletter from up-and-coming twitblog, The Tyee. Two stories caught my attention. The first was about a supercool Downtown Eastside writers collective called Thursdays, which just released its fourth chapbook, Storybox. The second was about the BC Library Association’s teen reading [...]
For my post this week I was originally going to write about the concept of reputation, with a particular focus on Lebron James and his classless, drunk-on-ego Superfriends performance (filtered nicely through the thoughtful lens of two heroes, Alexandra Samuel and Steve Nash). And then I was going to argue that rural living is superior [...]
